Teaching and Learning Assistant
The Valley Leadership Academy, Bacup, Lancashire, OL13 0TG32 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
18 August 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
17 July 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time, term time: 37 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,500 to £23,893 per annum (Pro rata £20,731.45 to £21,078.15 per annum)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Who we’re looking for
We’re looking for a dedicated individual to provide tailored support to our pupils. You will be committed to making a positive difference to young people’s lives and in supporting and developing their learning. Your intervention will help enable an outstanding learning environment for our young people, providing the support they need to succeed.
The successful candidate will be a committed team player with excellent organisational and technical skills. You will have the ability to effectively support learning and teaching, and to develop relationships across our school and the Star community.
You will have:
- NVQ Level 3 Teaching Assistant or A Level or equivalent.
- Experience of working with children in a secondary school or other setting.
- Experience of supporting children with special educational needs (SEN).
- The ability to maintain positive relationships with students, parents and staff.
- The ability to work effectively within a team.
What the school offers its staff
About The Valley Leadership Academy
The Valley Leadership Academy is a secondary school for 11 to 16year olds in Bacup. We joined Star Academies in 2019 and, like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism.
We are a rapidly improving school with high ambitions and expectations for all of our pupils. We provide a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
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About The Valley Leadership Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 655 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The Valley Leadership Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- beth.gallagher@thevalley.staracademies.org
- Phone number
- 01706 873896
The Valley Leadership Academy is a secondary school for 11 to 16 year olds in Bacup. We joined Star Academies in 2019 and, like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism.
We are a rapidly improving school with high ambitions and expectations for all of our pupils. We provide a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader.
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